Valuing health for regulatory cost-effectiveness analysis / Wilhelmine Miller, Lisa A. Robinson, and Robert S. Lawrence, editors ; Committee to Evaluate Measures of Health Benefits for Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Promoting human health and safety by reducing exposures to risks and harms through regulatory interventions is among the most important responsibilities of the government. Such efforts encompass a wide array of activities in many different contexts: improving air and water quality; safeguarding the...
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Table of Contents:
- Characteristics of major regulations and current analytic practices
- Measures and strategies for obtaining health benefit values for regulatory analysis
- Beyond ratios: ethical and nonquantifiable aspects of regulatory decisions
- Recommendations for regulatory cost-effectiveness analysis.